HASHEM, I don't mean to complain, but you owe me. I mean, just look at everything I do for you. I daven. I put on tefilin. I eat only kosher. It's not easy, you know. When I'm on the road, there are times when I can barely find a snack. But more
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This week's parashah opens with the dedication of the Mishkan and the death of Aharon's two eldest sons. Following that tragedy, Moshe and Aharon enter into a discussion regarding the propriety of Aharon's remaining sons, who are mourners, eating
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"Moses summoned Aharon". The Acronym of the first letters of the Hebrew words Qara Moshe LeAharon is the word Maqel (rod). Maqel is the same Gematria as Nissan (which is 170). Additionally, the last letters of the na
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There is an interesting Baal HaTurim at the beginning of Parshas Shmini. The first pasuk of the parsha reads, "Vayehi baYom haShmini" [And it was on the eighth day] "karah Moshe" [Moshe called] "to Aaron and his sons, and to the elders of Israe
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In the face of overwhelming tragedy, the death of his two sons, Aharon is nevertheless reprimanded by Moshe for a seeming infraction of the halacha regarding the eating from a sacrifice while one is yet grief-stricken over the
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On the eighth day of the dedication of the Mishkan, Aharon, his sons, and the entire nation bring various korbanot (offerings) as commanded by Moshe. Aharon and Moshe bless the nation. G-d allows the Je
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Purim

The Midrash Mishlei states that after Moshiach comes, we will cease to observe all the Yomim Tovim, except Purim. Many commentators have asked why this should be. Was Purim as momentous as the Exodus from Egypt, or the giving
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There is a Midrash that holds that the regular Chagim as we know them will be modified, scaled back or otherwise abolished completely. The Midrash provides an analogy that it would be like a candle in the daytime to remember miracles in an era of mi
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Let’s appreciate just how fantastic this irony is: all along, Haman is oblivious to the fact that every single step he takes towards Jewish destruction is actually depositing another brick in the wall of Jewish salvation.
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When or why you should be concerned about your friends, your close ones, and why is there a mitzva to rebuke? Isn't it not caring or knowing and staying aside is better policy and less headache? Who cares what they do. Find
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The Gemara comments, “Just as when Ab comes we reduce our joy, when Adar comes we increase our joy.” Rather than simply establishing the obligation to increase our joy during the month of Adar, the Gemara found it necessary t
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The Ponevezh (Ponevitch) Rav, who founded Benei Berak, once asked the Hazon Ish why it was that when it came to collect money for universities, people would write a one-time ten million dollar check and the university was s
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